Books

There is a surprising and very freeing future for caregivers after Alzheimer’s disease runs its course and leaves the building where you have been trying to make a home. The house will never be the same. Your heart will never feel the same. But in spite of its bad reputation, living with Al isn’t all about heartbreak.

If you are a current...

I grew up in a family where we wrote one another love letters. We put them on pillows, in lunch bags, by bedsides.
So it was only natural that when my niece Katie asked me to compile some family recipes for her upon the occasion of her marriage that I would place those recipes alongside all the love letters I had been wanting to write and had...

When a church lady falls in love, she falls hard.
Sometimes she lands on her knees.
Miss Budge does as she moves quietly and powerfully through her daily life in Old Cloverdale, where F. Scott Fitzgerald once courted Zelda, and two miles away Nat King Cole was born.
Fitzgerald wrote about love. Nat Cole sang about love, and Mildred Budge knows...

As more and more people are discovering, Alzheimer’s disease is the worst kind of thief. Over time, it robs those who suffer from it of the treasure of their memories and the sharpness of their minds. In “The Long Good Night” Daphne Simpkins chronicles the slow, sometimes heartbreaking decline of her father from the disease, but also contradicts...